Spy Wars: Red Shopkeeper

Chapter 100
It’s not easy to deal with Fu Xiaoan.

Several people with bad intentions gathered together and thought about it. First of all, Fu Xiaoan himself had no weaknesses and a very strong background. Even the military police headquarters would not be able to take him down easily.

The second is power. Fu Xiaoan is the mayor, and he can resist anything in the city. But if he really goes too far, such as Wu Sibao's idea of ​​kidnapping his son Fu Pingui, then even if Fu Xiaoan calls on the Military Police Headquarters, the Special Agent Headquarters and the Judicial Department will not be able to handle it.

However, Wu Sibao said that Fu Pingui was gambling heavily in the casino in the French Concession, and his position was the manager of a bank in the French Concession. After hearing this, Li Shiqun thought about it for a while and came up with an idea.

"Director Gu, we've done this. You've put in so much effort. Take a break."

Gu Yansheng looked at Li Shiqun's confident smile and said without asking any more questions, "That's great. Thank you very much."

Gu Yansheng had prepared a plan before coming, but since Li Shiqun wanted to do it himself, let's see what Li Shiqun can do.

That night, Sheng Wenyi took revenge on Zhang Xiaolin.

Zhang Xiaolin used to be on good terms with the Japanese, so the drugs he bought from outside were placed in the Wusongkou warehouse. There was no garrison at all, and the Japanese were essentially helping him guard his home.

But now the gendarmerie headquarters turned to Sheng Wenyi, resulting in all of Zhang Xiaolin's warehouses being confiscated.

He was not the only one whose goods were confiscated. Even the warehouses of foreign companies like Sassoon were forcibly opened for inspection. Due to foreign-related factors, the gendarmes did not dare to touch Sassoon's ordinary goods, but they could seize contraband items like opium.

Drug prohibition has a legal basis. Even if Sassoon seized the drugs, he would not dare to say that the drugs were his own. He would only say that it was the misconduct of his subordinates.

Zhang Xiaolin would definitely launch a retaliatory action, and Sheng Wenyi also arranged for Fu Xiaoan to contact the secret service headquarters to take action to stop him.

However, the secret service headquarters suddenly left and the shops were still being smashed, and Sheng Wenyi soon realized that the secret service headquarters was unreliable.

So they simply had the gendarmerie headquarters notify the military camp to deploy more personnel on the streets and set up more checkpoints, especially to strengthen patrols near Fu Xiaoan's shop and forcibly cut off the escape route of the Green Gang members.

Zhang Xiaolin was indeed in a difficult situation at the moment. He couldn't destroy the country, so he could only attack foreign businessmen. There would definitely be an effect, but Sheng Wenyi and Fu Xiaoan would not be hurt.

But Sassoon could help them in the concession.

That night, a raging fire broke out in a warehouse of Fu Xiaoan at the International Settlement Pier. The fire brigade, which should have arrived quickly, was unable to reach the scene for an hour due to a traffic accident at the intersection.

Smoke drifted out of the warehouse and floated over the Huangpu River, like cooking smoke, bringing a touch of warmth to the Huangpu River in winter.

Fu Xiaoan did feel a little warm, and his body was hot from anger!

After receiving the call, he immediately rushed to the warehouse dock, but he could do nothing about the burning flames. He stared at the flames with a sullen face.

The firefighters seemed to be working diligently to put out the fire, but even if they tried their best, they couldn't put out the flames with just those two small water guns.

The warehouses in the concession contained precious imported items. In one fire, hundreds of thousands of dollars were gone!

"Zhang Xiaolin!"

Fu Xiaoan couldn't understand why Zhang Xiaolin, who hadn't even bothered to seek revenge on Sheng Wenyi, had targeted him and turned on him? He hadn't shown up at all throughout this whole thing, so how did these people know about his relationship with Sheng Wenyi?
Who came up with this bad idea?

"Zhang Xiaolin! How dare you hire someone to burn down my warehouse?" Fu Xiaoan was furious and called Zhang Xiaolin without caring whether it was the middle of the night or not.

Zhang Xiaolin exclaimed, "Who burned down your warehouse? Your warehouse was burned down?"

"Why are you pretending? Someone has recognized that they are your men!" Fu Xiaoan lied casually.

"I chopped off his hand when he told me his name. Mayor Fu, you need to provide evidence when you speak. You accidentally blamed me."

Fu Xiaoan was rebuked and snorted angrily, "Don't be so secretive. It happened so coincidentally. Do you think I would believe something like an accidental fire? Zhang Xiaolin, every wrong has its perpetrator. If you want revenge, go find Sheng Wenyi! What does it have to do with me? I didn't close your shop!"

Zhang Xiaolin laughed: "The Sheng family's housekeeper and the Sheng family's third young master said it's okay, do you think I'm just a newbie?

Don't mention that you two are related. Even if you don't have a relationship, you are the mayor and I am a citizen. Isn't it normal for me to be a little angry if you don't help me solve the problem? "

Fu Xiaoan angrily shouted, "Stop talking nonsense, compensate me for my losses, and I'll make peace with you. You'll have a job in downtown SH."

Zhang Xiaolin's smile grew colder. "One bite? Do you think I'm begging for food? Mayor Fu, be careful with the candles. Something might catch fire again."

Bang, the phone was hung up.

Fu Xiaoan slammed the phone on the table, his face gloomy and angry. If he had known that these people would target him and beat him, he would never have let Sheng Wenyi do that!
Now there is trouble. Sheng Wenyi is living a comfortable life. He is a lonely man with no real estate at all. However, he has so many shops and warehouses, all of which are exposed there. It is impossible to hide them. They are all sitting ducks.

After much thought, he called Sheng Wenyi and said, "They burned down another warehouse of mine, a warehouse in the concession. I lost hundreds of thousands! Don't do it recklessly. Go talk to them. You can always come to an agreement."

"If we negotiate, won't that just give them the opportunity to ask for an exorbitant price? How can I continue this work?" Sheng Wenyi disagreed 100% and said in a tough tone:
"Mayor, just bear with it. At worst, we can just move everything downtown. The military police are standing guard for you now, and you can move your stuff here. How much of a loss can you expect?"

"So many things don't need to be taxed when they cross the border! And there are so many shops in my concession!"

"We can make up for it. Get them all kicked out. How much is the drug money for a year?"

"Why don't you try to talk to me?"

"Let's not talk about it. I don't believe I can't outlast them."

Sheng Wenyi insisted on his own way and continued to raid all the drug dealers' tobacco shops the next day. At Wusongkou, Japanese patrol boats appeared in large numbers and strictly inspected the ships coming and going. Any opium they found would be confiscated.

Sheng Wenyi not only had to clear out the spot drugs in the city, but also had to prevent even a single bag of foreign drugs from entering Shanghai.

As long as the inventory of these old drug dealers is cleared out, they will completely lose their voice, and the pricing power of the entire market will fall into his hands, and he will still have the final say.

The strategy is indeed very useful. At least in the urban area of ​​SH, where the military police are on high alert, Sheng Wenyi is invincible.

Zhang Xiaolin and his men could cause trouble, wreak havoc everywhere, and turn Shanghai upside down, but they could not hurt Sheng Wenyi, and the final effect would not be good, and the opium stocks were also decreasing little by little.

The name Sheng Wenyi has become completely famous. Due to the frequent smashing of shops outside the city of SH, no matter what the cause of the incident is, the saying that I am the director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, Sheng Wenyi, has spread widely.

In the eyes of foreign businessmen, Sheng Wenyi has now become a complete bastard, a vampire, and an existence even more hateful than the Japanese.

The citizens of SH also knew Sheng Wenyi's name and cursed him loudly. They had the most direct feeling about the deterioration of the environment.

A large number of complaints were made to the consulate, and Hasegawa Inkawa must be disgusted by this. He may not care about the feelings of the Chinese people, but the relationship with foreign businessmen has become too bad!

He knew the cause, so he contacted the Military Police Headquarters about the matter, but the Military Police Headquarters was quite satisfied with the drug profit prospects presented by Sheng Wenyi.

"The road to victory is bound to be filled with thorns, but as long as the result is victory, I think the process is acceptable. Hase-kun, please be patient."

How could he endure this? It wasn't the Military Police Headquarters that was being bombarded by foreign businessmen. He was speaking so lightly. Hasegawa Inkawa was so exhausted from answering the phone that his nerves were almost weakened. But if the Military Police Headquarters insisted on having their own way, he had no way to change their minds.

After all, he couldn't command the military.

The situation seemed to be heading towards a stalemate for a while, and it was not friendly to the Green Gang. It was easy to smash and destroy things, but there would always be casualties due to the checkpoints set up by the Japanese military police.

Zhang Xiaolin called Gu Yansheng to ask for his opinion.

Gu Yansheng told him not to worry, that just because a butterfly flaps its wings, a storm may not appear around.

Call Sassoon and ask him to take the lead and unite all foreign companies to boycott the military note system.

At the same time, a piece of news appeared in the newspaper.

Mayor Fu Xiaoan's son Fu Pingui gambled heavily in the casino in the concession and lost 200,000 yuan overnight.

The newspaper kindly included a photo of Fu Pingui calmly gambling, and also conducted some reliable analysis, such as the source of Fu Pingui's funds.

As the son of Fu Xiaoan, it is understandable that Fu Pingui is rich, but the newspaper downplayed the role of Fu Xiaoan's family property and instead emphasized the fact that Fu Pingui was the manager of the Zhonghui Bank in the French Concession, and made some speculations about his reckless gambling style.

For example, whether Fu Pingui would embezzle users' deposits of China Hui Bank for gambling.

Or, as the manager of Zhonghui Bank, would Fu Pingui make things easier for Fu Xiaoan's business and provide unlimited loans without review?

Does China Merchants Bank have huge loopholes in its capital review?
With the stock market continuing to fall, could Fu Xiaoan's capital chain be in jeopardy? According to a reliable source, Fu Xiaoan had requested to postpone the purchase of a batch of cotton yarn he had originally planned to buy from him.

This statement is just an example to ordinary people, but as long as Fu Xiaoan sees it, he will definitely understand it. Li Shiqun almost pasted the two big words "Pay back the money" all over the newspaper.

As soon as the news was released, Zhonghui Bank was immediately hit by a bank run by users in the concession.

What's more, if this is true, Fu Xiaoan may have his loan returned by Zhonghui Bank due to review. In addition, Fu Xiaoan's shop was smashed and his warehouse was burned recently. If the company under his name is asked to pay back the money by Zhonghui Bank, it is very likely to sell off the company to recover the funds.

Fu Xiaoan is one of the market makers in the Shanghai stock market. If he sells off his stocks, who can bear it?

The stock market plummeted and a stampede ensued.

The introduction of military notes caused the stock market to turn from rising to falling. Due to the recent chaos and the selling of foreign capital, the stock market fell further. Due to the Fu Pingui incident, the precarious Shanghai market entered a plunge mode, and countless people began to suffer losses.

The margin call triggers a forced sell order. Once the sell order is placed, no one takes it and the stock price continues to fall. As the price continues to fall, some people start to have their margin calls liquidated again.

City government meeting.

The decision-makers of SH City were sitting at the long table, except Sheng Wenyi, who was not there. He said that he had been busy all night and went to catch up on some sleep.

Over the past two days, all senior executives have submitted a list of five companies willing to cooperate in the use of military notes.

Even though the number was far from what Su Xiwen required, and even though Ling Xianwen, his mortal rival, had not paid enough, Su Xiwen stopped cursing.

Because he didn't pay enough today.

The drug mission belongs to Sheng Wenyi, but the military note mission belongs to all of them.

Now Sheng Wenyi has completely disrupted the situation that was supposed to continue to improve!
"Deputy Mayor Su, foreign businesses are suffering losses. Now it's not a question of whether they will cooperate with us in implementing military bills, but a question of boycott."

The Finance Bureau Director tapped the table with a disgusted look on his face. "Some foreign companies have already contacted me and told me that if this matter is not resolved and their losses are not compensated, not only will new companies be accepted, but even those that have already agreed will be united to oppose and boycott!
If the boycott doesn't work, they will withdraw their investment. You Japanese can do whatever you want in the SH city area. These are their original words. They will join forces with the Concession Municipal Council and the French Concession Municipal Council to launch a comprehensive boycott of the SH city area.

Then Shanghai’s economy will be completely ruined!

Even if it is a Chinese company, as long as we cooperate with them, they can still use trade threats. Then how can this matter be implemented? Anyway, I can't do anything about it!

If they really leave, then we will all be left with nothing!"

"Sheng Wenyi, are you kidding me? If he keeps doing this, he'll make all the money. What are we going to do?"

The director of the Construction Bureau was furious and started to rant: "If everyone does things as recklessly as him, what's the point of doing construction? Why not just start robbing houses and make money quickly?
Who doesn't understand the principle of draining the pond to catch all the fish? Only he, an uneducated idiot, doesn't understand.

It's caused a huge uproar. He's making money and we're cleaning up the mess. If the Military Police Headquarters blames us, I won't take the blame anyway!"

After saying this, he added bitterly, "We've really been working hard. Ten families a day. I've used every aunt and uncle I could as lobbyists. My lips are worn out. It's been hard enough. What else do you want from us?"

"I can't do this job anymore. I quit!"

"Yes, I'm done with this. How can I continue? I've already reneged on the agreement. What's the point of continuing? I just get scolded by those foreigners when I visit them."

"Deputy Mayor Su, it's not that we're not working hard, it's that someone is trying so hard to hold us back that we can't do it."

"I really can't do it."

This task was difficult to begin with, and they were forced to do it. Now that there is a legitimate reason, everyone jumped out to oppose it.

Su Xiwen frowned and said nothing. If this had happened two days ago, he would have dared to make the director resign on the spot if he said he didn't want to do his job.

But now, he himself was furious.

The first task he took on as Director of the Economic Department was turned upside down by the newcomer Sheng Wenyi.

"Deputy Mayor Su, why don't you talk to the Military Police Headquarters about this? If things continue like this, this job won't be possible."

"What? If it were you, I'd just do nothing. I want to see how this thing ends. If the Japanese only care about the profits from drugs, then Shanghai's economy will be ruined!"

"That's right, Deputy Mayor Su. I think you should step down and let Sheng Wenyi take on the position of Director of the Economic Department. This will save you from having to work so hard while we still have to do the work for nothing."

Su Xiwen was speechless after hearing this. It was indeed not their problem that the team could no longer be led. Just when he was thinking of going to the military police headquarters to have a good talk.

The door of the conference room suddenly opened and an unexpected person appeared.

Fu Xiaoan walked in with a serious face and extraordinary imposing manner.

After him, he brought over several directors who were on sick leave in the hospital.

(End of this chapter)